title: Editorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century
creator: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
subject: 900
subject: 900 Geography and history
description: Telecommunication systems dematerialize the information that they transmit and, thereby, detach the flow of information from the movement of material carriers such as people or goods. The immediate effect of such a dematerialization is a substantial gain in transmission speed, which has often been styled as the principal characteristic of telecommunication. Of far greater  significance – at least from an analytical perspective – is, however, the relative gain in information transmission speed as against the speed of movement of people or goods. Flows of dematerialized information work along a completely  new logic. It is one essential constituent of this logic that wherever telecommunication networks reach information outpaces material transport and can, therefore, be used to efficiently coordinate, control and command such material  movement. The telegraph as the first fully-fledged telecommunication system pioneered this qualitative change and introduced a new rationale to global communication – and, therefore, ultimately to globalization processes of the  nineteenth century.
publisher: Center for Historical Social Research
contributor: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
date: 2010
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19666/1/Wenzlhuemer_Editorial_Telecommunication_and_Globalization_2010.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00019666
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196661
identifier:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2010) Editorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century.  [Book Section]     
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language: eng